Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is a whole new breed of marathoner who wouldn't even have considered running something like a marathon. In the past, people ran if they were exercise junkies. The marathon held the ultimate challenge for them.

George Eliot

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Scott Styris

We've got good depth now, and that breeds confidence,

Charisma Carpenter

I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.

Kerry Condon

I'm used to riding horses. My father used to breed horses when I was a child. I grew up in Tipperary, in the country, and lots of people have horses there. If my parents hadn't been in the business, we would have them anyway, as pets. And my cousin Richard is a jockey.

When you're able to come back in the fashion that we did, it breeds confidence.

Twyla Tharp

Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.

What this does for our program is that it breeds success.

Sharon Kay Penman

Many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would wager that most would be truly startled to learn that the star in the Jersey firmament is - drum roll here - Newark.

She's really doing New York. This is the toughest breed to catch, and she's traveling.

Kylie Bax

My aim and my passion is to own and breed race horses.

Kym Whitley

My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.

Martin Freeman

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

Perhaps this is signaling a reversal of the longer-run trend of the breeding herd moving away from the eastern Corn Belt. In 1990, 27 percent of the U.S. breeding herd was in the eastern Corn Belt. That portion declined steadily to a low of only 17.2 percent in 2004.

Leon Uris

My guiding thought throughout was that the real Marine story had not been told. We were a different breed of men who looked at war in a different way.

I don't know what we have for next year, but success breeds success and we did it with quality guys this year and we're so proud of them.

Val Kilmer

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

One very obvious indication elephants don't do well in captivity is the fact that zoos are having so much trouble breeding them.

Bryan Greenberg

I really hope people go out and support the indie filmmakers, because it's a dying breed and there's a lot of cool voices out there that need to be heard.

Adam Schiff

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

Joschka Fischer

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!

Familiarity used to breed contempt ..... now it just breeds

Donald Trump

I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples. It breeds tolerance.

Aristotle

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

Glenn Greenwald

There's a huge dichotomy between people who grow up with alienation, which, for me, was invaluable, and people who grow up so completely privileged that it breeds this complacency and lack of desire to question or challenge or do anything significant. Those are the types of people who become partners at the corporate law firms.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

O. J. Simpson

You cannot have political machines and end corruption. Political machines breed corruption just like garbage breeds flies.

We all know that Sunnis don't like it, and that it's probably going to pass, so that's going to push us farther apart. I wish this process was given more time. Now I fear we're rushing to something that will breed more resentment, more violence.

Why go digital? I come from a breed of musical technicians that couldn't live without getting the latest technology on the market.

You have to come. The reason I come is not because everybody here has got what you want, but the coaches are so good. These coaches get after it. They breed competitive kids. They're competitive and can help you win.

We will comb the streets, check the drains, look at the bins ... the roof structures at all estates. We will find the breeding grounds and destroy them.

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.